Book Discussion 2: (Virtual) Erasure by Percival Everett

This December Book Discussion 2 will be on the third Thursday, December 19, 2024, due to the winter break season.

Our December book read is: Erasure by Percival Everett

If you'd like to attend in person rather than on Zoom, look for the in person meetup with the same book title.

Announcement:

• Last day for Book Recommendations.
• Look out for the POLL To OPEN: The POLL WILL BE RELEASED NO LATER THAN January 10, 2024.
• Check your Email for the poll link & Please vote.
• The email with the poll link most likely will come from our Meet Up email address:
  [email protected]
• The poll will end the weekend of March 1st, 2025.

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Notes for leader: Read & Erase/ then complete :-)

The movie version was released last year and is available to stream. If you've seen it, it will be fun to compare and contrast.

Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of the literary establishment as he watches the meteoric success of We's Lives in Da Ghetto, a first novel by a woman who once visited "some relatives in Harlem for a couple of days." Meanwhile, Monk struggles with real family tragedies―his aged mother is fast succumbing to Alzheimer's, and he still grapples with the reverberations of his father's suicide seven years before.